Degenerates is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEGENERATES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEGENERATE, to pass from a higher to a lower type or condition
• decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally
NOUN:
• an immoral or corrupt person
ADJECTIVE:
• having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline
• lacking some usual or expected property or quality.
• (of a type of equation, curve, etc.) equivalent to a simpler type, especially when a variable or parameter is set to zero.
• (of an energy level) corresponding to more than one quantum state.
• (of matter) at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted, either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons.
• having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state; having sunk to a condition below that which is normal to a type; having sunk to a lower and usually corrupt and vicious state; degraded

Words related to DEGENERATES

degenerate12

Words that contain DEGENERATES

nondegenerates16

How to use DEGENERATES in a sentence

• At this period, as is usual among degraded peoples, the history of the Romans degenerates into mere anecdotes of their rulers.
• Skinny had heard of men who courted girls of wealth to win their money and with sincere contempt he despised these degenerates of his sex.
• Without Innocence, Beauty is unlovely, and Quality contemptible, Good-breeding degenerates into Wantonness, and Wit into Impudence.
• If friendship does not content you we will try the sword, for clemency exerted beyond a certain limit degenerates into weakness.
• Arguing very soon degenerates, in such a case, into an irritating and utterly useless dispute.
• The sad part of it is that the humorous, because it has no support and no law within itself, sooner or later degenerates into melancholy and bad temper.
• It is only when the sign-language is abused that its merit as a means of instruction degenerates.
• Physically, the race suffers and degenerates under the influence of the warm climate.
• Between officer and man there is a marked respect, and a marked good fellowship which never degenerates into familiarity.
• Any human being has to earn what he eats or he degenerates.
• A love of power easily degenerates from patriotism into treason or tyranny, or both.
• It is said that the Marseilles fig degenerates when transported into any other part of the country.
• They were certainly moral, if not physical, degenerates, and most of them notoriously depraved, none bearing in this respect a worse character than the actual murderer.
• It is a common modern vulgar shuffle, a thing of ugly gestures and violent motions, the true sport of degenerates.
• Sometimes he degenerates into a burglar or common thief, sometimes he becomes the proprietor of a panel house or a policy office.
• They easily become the victims of vice and crime, and eventually they become degenerates and end their lives in insane institutions.
• Having emerged from the first age, ft degenerates in the second age, and perishes in the third.
• Thus degenerates ancient piety in the stress of modern social problems.
• Excess of conscientiousness degenerates into infirmity.
• Independence Day, which degenerates into a perfect orgy of debauchery, was not then in vogue.
• Many times have I been told that looking into the past only degenerates and leads to nothing, and that we should look to the future.
• Much of the verse is musical, and there is throughout a vein of thoughtfulness which never degenerates into a morbid brooding.
• The absent grand chief was an Ottoe, named Weahrushhah, which, in English, degenerates into Little Thief.
• If she mates at all it must be with another New Jersey farmer, then she dies after bringing a few degenerates into the world.
• In this process the intellect may remain unimpaired, but the moral fibre degenerates.
• In Latin countries, the three days before Ash Wednesday are given up to boisterous outdoor merriment, which frequently degenerates into coarse and licentious revelry.
• When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

Similar words containing GENERATE without suffix s and without prefix de

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